§ 7-8-115 — Securities Intermediary and Others Not Liable to Adverse Claimant

Alabama § 7-8-115

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 7: Commercial Code
• Art. 8: Investment Securities
• Part 1: Short Title and General Matters

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A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset pursuant to an effective entitlement order, or a broker or other agent or bailee that has dealt with a financial asset at the direction of its customer or principal, is not liable to a person having an adverse claim to the financial asset, unless the securities intermediary, or broker or other agent or bailee:
(1) took the action after it had been served with an injunction, restraining order, or other legal process enjoining it from doing so, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, and had a reasonable opportunity to act on the injunction, restraining order, or other legal process; or
(2) acted in collusion with the wrongdoer in violating the rights of the adverse claimant; or
(3) in the case of a security certificate that has been stolen, acted with notice of the adverse claim.

Legislative History

(Acts 1996, No. 96-742, p. 1241, §1.)